Summer Pond (Study)
Hello and welcome to Tonalist paintings by M Francis McCarthy.
Today's painting is 'Summer Pond' 5x5 (study).
I wrapped up the 100 days of Tonalism series about five days ago. I've taken a nice break and caught up on other work. I've had it in my head that I would like to continue blogging and presenting videos of my work and my working process.
Today's video is about six times faster than I actually paint. I may change the video speed as I judge it appropriate for what I wish to talk about and the paintings that I am presenting. I have high resolution videos of my paintings going back for two years now, but it takes too long to upload these and I'm more comfortable with the sped up lower resolution video format for the purposes of this blog. At some point in the future I hope to have all of the high-rez versions of my painting sessions online.
As I stated in the video narration I started videotaping my work back in January 2014. My wife had given me a nice HD video camera for Christmas and I was keen to capture my process. The video you see accompanying today's blog post is one of my earlier attempts at videotaping. I do not keep the sound portion of the videos at all, so my archives do not include any sound. It's enough to record the brushstrokes for now. Most the time while I'm working I have either an audiobook, music or a podcast going in the background and I just don't think that's important to archive.
What I do enjoy capturing is the creation process of the painting. Even after all these years of doing landscape painting, I still consider it to be an almost mystical occurrence. You would think that painting would get easier with each successive year however, though the paintings may get better, the work really doesn't get much easier after the initial lessons have been learned.
Today's blog post is a bit rambling in nature, however I wanted to keep in touch with those of you that have followed my hundred days of Tonalism project and I really enjoy sharing my work and ideas about painting online. So stick with me and I'm sure if you are interested in painting, especially if you're interested in my painting, you will definitely pick up some good information.
As I stated on the video, I plan to do two paintings/blog posts each week of the same subject, the first painting will be my small study. I intend to do this midweek. The second post will be the larger version of the same motif, Most likely on Friday or the weekend. This is my current idea but I may change or modify things as we go along. As I stated at the end of the hundred days of Tonalism series, I want to keep this blog going for a while and this seems like a good way to do it.
Stay tuned for part two of 'Summer Pond' coming up in a few days.
Cheers,
M Francis McCarthy
Landscapepainter.co.nz
A bit about 'Summer pond' 5x5; this motif is of a scene that is not that far from my home. I captured my photographic reference one day driving into town from a trip to Auckland. At the time that I did this painting which would have been January 2014 I was very interested in injecting color into my work. So you'll see a lot of orange and blue in the sky which at that time was a color combination that I was very fascinated with.
I'm quite happy with the way this small study worked out. 5x5 is a very small size to work and it's always a challenge to get any actual detail into the painting given that I'm using a pretty large brush. This is intentional and that I like the focus of my smaller studies to be on the color and composition.
To see more of my work, visit my site here
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| Summer Pond by M Francis McCarthy, 5x5 study, Oil Painting on Wood Panel |
I wrapped up the 100 days of Tonalism series about five days ago. I've taken a nice break and caught up on other work. I've had it in my head that I would like to continue blogging and presenting videos of my work and my working process.
Today's video is about six times faster than I actually paint. I may change the video speed as I judge it appropriate for what I wish to talk about and the paintings that I am presenting. I have high resolution videos of my paintings going back for two years now, but it takes too long to upload these and I'm more comfortable with the sped up lower resolution video format for the purposes of this blog. At some point in the future I hope to have all of the high-rez versions of my painting sessions online.
As I stated in the video narration I started videotaping my work back in January 2014. My wife had given me a nice HD video camera for Christmas and I was keen to capture my process. The video you see accompanying today's blog post is one of my earlier attempts at videotaping. I do not keep the sound portion of the videos at all, so my archives do not include any sound. It's enough to record the brushstrokes for now. Most the time while I'm working I have either an audiobook, music or a podcast going in the background and I just don't think that's important to archive.
What I do enjoy capturing is the creation process of the painting. Even after all these years of doing landscape painting, I still consider it to be an almost mystical occurrence. You would think that painting would get easier with each successive year however, though the paintings may get better, the work really doesn't get much easier after the initial lessons have been learned.
Today's blog post is a bit rambling in nature, however I wanted to keep in touch with those of you that have followed my hundred days of Tonalism project and I really enjoy sharing my work and ideas about painting online. So stick with me and I'm sure if you are interested in painting, especially if you're interested in my painting, you will definitely pick up some good information.
As I stated on the video, I plan to do two paintings/blog posts each week of the same subject, the first painting will be my small study. I intend to do this midweek. The second post will be the larger version of the same motif, Most likely on Friday or the weekend. This is my current idea but I may change or modify things as we go along. As I stated at the end of the hundred days of Tonalism series, I want to keep this blog going for a while and this seems like a good way to do it.
Stay tuned for part two of 'Summer Pond' coming up in a few days.
Cheers,
M Francis McCarthy
Landscapepainter.co.nz
A bit about 'Summer pond' 5x5; this motif is of a scene that is not that far from my home. I captured my photographic reference one day driving into town from a trip to Auckland. At the time that I did this painting which would have been January 2014 I was very interested in injecting color into my work. So you'll see a lot of orange and blue in the sky which at that time was a color combination that I was very fascinated with.
I'm quite happy with the way this small study worked out. 5x5 is a very small size to work and it's always a challenge to get any actual detail into the painting given that I'm using a pretty large brush. This is intentional and that I like the focus of my smaller studies to be on the color and composition.
To see more of my work, visit my site here